Tax on hotel in Israel?

[Deal Guy]

If you book a spg hotel in Israel on points, or cash & points, and you have been in Israel for 5 months already, do you need to pay any sort of tax? What kind of tax is there on points or C&P?
Do you need to bring your passport to the hotel?

[elikay]

By then you will have exhausted your tourist visa, so yes you'd pay VAT.

[Deal Guy]

By then you will have exhausted your turist visa, so yes you'd pay VAT.

I know that the tourist visa is exhaused. But do you must have a passpost when checking in? All of you guys living in Israel, how do you get away with it in Eilat or Dead sea?

[Chaikel]

I didn't pay any tax on CP Eilat, but they charged me in shekels at the hotel rate, so it came out to ~$63+3% FOREX

[Deal Guy]

I didn't pay any tax on CP Eilat, but they charged me in shekels at the hotel rate, so it came out to ~$63+3% FOREX

So you don't have to provide a passport?
The CP Eilat was pointsbreaks (no?), which is 5000 points, so where did $63 come into the picture?

[Chaikel]

SPG Cash and points

[moish]

you have to provide a passport but ive never paid any tax on a c+p with a student visa.
just recently, the lm eilat tried to pull a fast one on me on a full award stay by trying to charge $75 for i have no idea what but i cleared it up with them

[yid]

I don't know about the dead sea or eilat but i stayed at the sheraton tel aviv a few months ago and since i didnt have a tourist visa i just gave my license to check in and did not have to pay tax.

[Deal Guy]

I didn't pay any tax on CP Eilat, but they charged me in shekels at the hotel rate, so it came out to ~$63+3% FOREX

you have to provide a passport but ive never paid any tax on a c+p with a student visa.
just recently, the lm eilat tried to pull a fast one on me on a full award stay by trying to charge $75 for i have no idea what but i cleared it up with them

I don't know about the dead sea or eilat but i stayed at the sheraton tel aviv a few months ago and since i didnt have a tourist visa i just gave my license to check in and did not have to pay tax.

Thanks!

[Jkhein]

Stayed recently at the Sheraton TLV and in LM dead sea with a student visa, no tax charged.

[Aben]

Stayed recently at the Sheraton TLV and in LM dead sea with a student visa, no tax charged.

Good 4 u
I guess they did not know what they were doing.

[Deal Guy]

I wonder if you come empty handed without a student visa or passport, if they let you get away with it?

[moish]

Good 4 u
I guess they did not know what they were doing.

im assuming he meant on a point stay, and that would be standard procedure

[Jkhein]

im assuming he meant on a point stay, and that would be standard procedure

Yes they were indeed point stays, but are there standard procedures? Because in the Starwood confirmation it does say by Israeli hotels that if you do not have a tourist visa, tax will be charged, doesnt say it only applies to cash reservations.

[Deal Guy]

I guess you're right:

 
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